Before

 

 

 Texture Port Mohomack Scotland 2004

Giedrius Varnas

 Before the gate has been closed
before the last question is posed
before I am transposed.
Before the weeds fill the gardens,
before there are no pardons
before the concrete hardens.

 

 The Tree
Manolis Tsantakis



Before all the flute-holes are covered,
before things are locked in then cupboard,
before the rules are discovered.
Before the conclusion is planned,
before God closes his hand,
before we have nowhere to stand.
 
 
Carl Sandburg
 


The Emergence Series
The Offering
Martin Cooper 

Blank Joy

She who did not come, wasn’t she determined
nonetheless to organize and decorate my heart?

If we had to exist to become the one we love,
what would the heart have to create?

Lovely joy left blank,perhaps you are
the center of all my labors and my loves.

If I’ve wept for you so much, it’s because
I preferred you among so many outlined joys.

 

 

Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke

Painting: The Visitor

Artist: Robert Brawley